Keira Knightley beats Scarlett Johansson to win My Fair Lady role
News
oi-Staff
London
(ANI):
Keira
Knightley
has
beaten
Scarlett
Johansson
to
land
the
part
of
Eliza
Doolittle
in
a
new
film
adaptation
of
My
Fair
Lady,
it
has
emerged.
Now
the
24-year-old
actress
will
be
seen
starring
in
the
film
which
will
be
directed
by
Joe
Wright.
"Joe
and
Keira
are
looking
forward
to
working
together
again
immensely," says
a
friend
of
the
37-year-old
director.
In
August,
it
was
reported
that
Knightley
had
been
forced
to
compete
with
Johansson,
24,
for
the
role
of
the
Cockney
flower
seller
played
by
Audrey
Hepburn
in
the
1964
film,
reports
The
Telegraph.
"I
have
two
actresses
as
potential
Elizas,
one
British,
the
other
American," said
Sir
Cameron
Mackintosh,
who
is
producing
the
film
with
Duncan
Kenworthy,
at
the
time.
"You'd
know
their
names,
but
I'm
not
letting
on,"
he
added.
Recently,
Kenworthy
said:
"I
think
Keira
would
be
absolutely
fabulous
in
it."
Emma
Thompson
is
writing
the
film"s
script,
for
which
Daniel
Craig
has
been
mooted
as
a
possible
Professor
Henry
Higgins.